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boyfriend wet the bed-i am NOT cleaning it

  • 16-04-2011 12:55am
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭


    Going unreg because I am too embarrassed to use my actual name on this post.

    I was out at my aunt's birthday tonight. They're all very non-drink people so it was quite tiring having to constantly be the young talkative one.

    My boyfriend went out with work he was on a half day so he was in the pub til about 8 and he went back at 9 (he rang to tell me). I just came home to find him on the couch and was a bit surprised his clothes were wet. I went into the bedroom to discover he had wet the bed and moved to the couch because it was obviously too uncomfortable for him! He's done this now on three separate occasions in 2 years and I am very VERY annoyed. I've to put a load of cushions on the floor and sleep there.

    I think I Want to leave him. I had to clean it up the other times. I'm not doing it now. The duvet and everything is soaking. This is disgraceful I am SO disgusted.

    Did anyone ever deal with this here? I am absolutely boiling up with anger.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,875 ✭✭✭Seraphina


    Wetting the bed because he's drunk is pretty bad, but then to just move to the couch without cleaning anything up because he was uncomfortable on the bed?!? So he's been sitting on the couch in his pissy clothes too?

    I would have been dragging him off the couch to clean that up or giving him his marching orders. That is pretty disgusting and just SO disrespectful. He obviously assumed you would sort it out when you came in.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭LegacyUser


    Is it possible he moved just because he was too drunk to clean it up at that stage and just wanted to pass out. Wait till he's awake and see what he says. If he doesn't immediately clean it up then i would think he probably is hoping you'll do it, but give him a chance too.

    Tbh i think if this has happened before then he should really look at his drinking. Being so drunk that you wet your own bed repeatedly is awful but especially a bed that he shares with someone else. I'm fairly shocked he hasn't sorted it out already.

    When you've cleaned up after him before has he said anything at all? Or just ignored it completely?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,649 ✭✭✭✭CDfm


    Get him a sponge cloth and dettol spray and a bucket and suggest he does a major clean up

    Here is a UL factsheet for students who binge

    http://www.mic.ul.ie/counselling/Factsheets/alcohol.pdf

    Really if he cant drink responsibly and is wetting the bed he should see his GP and discuss his options

    http://www.drinkaware.ie/index.php?static=links

    and check out local support for you and read up on it

    http://www.drugs.ie/alcohol_info


  • Subscribers Posts: 19,425 ✭✭✭✭Oryx


    As long as the guy is now sober, release your boiling anger on him. Tell him what youve said here, and make sure he knows exactly how you feel about this. It depends on you whether you should leave him, it also depends on his attitude towards you over this. The incident itself would not be dealbreaker to me, but doing it repeatedly and not caring (or cleaning up) would be.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,649 ✭✭✭✭CDfm


    I would not start with anger.

    I would start with cleaning and I would keep my mouth shut for a meaningful discussion.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 209 ✭✭fghijkl


    Its not the wetting the bed that would bother me, people do stupid things when they're drunk and i wouldn't count 3 times in 2 years as indicating he has an alcohol problem but this
    I had to clean it up the other times

    is taking the p**s (excuse the pun)
    Eh why did you clean it up the other times :confused:
    Why would anyone make someone else clean up their own p**s? what the hell is wrong with him?! Does he have any respect for you at all! Doesn't sound like it!

    To be honest he sounds more like a 2 year old son than a boyfriend.
    If it were me he would've been gone the first time he expected to me to clean it up! I would've laughed in his face and dumped him on the spot. You're not his mother ffs! Ugh how vile.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 209 ✭✭fghijkl


    replied to another poster but completely misread their post, appologies


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭LegacyUser


    This has happened to me a few times although not in the bed, it results
    from not being able to find the door to the toilet as far as I can see.

    I was absolutely mortified to discover that it had happened but I can
    guarantee that when this happens the person is in no state to clean it
    up, be respectful (or even know what that is) etc.... I think in this state
    the person has reverted to some sort of animal, they are no longer the
    person you know and will do/say things that they would not normally do.
    Its frightening to be told this the next morning.

    I cleaned it up the next day and was just so embarrassed about it that
    it was simply unspoken about. I was completely freaked out that this had happened
    and I had no recollection whatsoever that it had happened either!

    The common denominator on the times it happened was I either drank on an
    empty stomach (5 or 6 pints of Guinness) or mixed something such as normal
    larger + Erdinger. I have taken steps to prevent this sort of thing happening:

    - given up Guinness altogether, I just cant handle it in large quantities
    - I no longer drink pints, just bottles to limit my intake
    - always eat absorbent food before drinking and sometimes during if I can
    - never mix drastically different drinks, i.e. Heineken to Budweiser is ok but not Beer to Wine!

    If you (or anyone reading this) thinks that their partner/friend might be drunk enough to
    do this:
    - Leave all the lights on leading to the toilet
    - Leave all the doors open from bedroom to toilet also
    - Essentially you are guiding a disoriented animal from A to B

    When I use the word animal I don't mean it in a violent or offensive sense. I'm merely
    using it to demonstrate that normal manners, acceptable social/public practices, culture
    etc no longer apply. Different things will happen depending on the person.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,442 ✭✭✭Firetrap


    That's pretty low, wetting the bed and just leaving it there without bothering his backside to do anything about it at all. What came through, apart from your understandable fury, is that you seem to be the one doing the clean-up. Has your boyfriend ever cleaned up after himself when he's had these accidents? Is he ever sorry about what happened?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,485 ✭✭✭✭Ickle Magoo


    I had to clean it up the other times.

    Why? Why on earth did you clean it up, not just once but on TWO other occasions? Why are you facilitating him? Why should he change when he knows not only will you stay put but you are also good enough to mop up as well?

    You need to spell out that this has moved from major annoyance to deal breaker and perhaps add a caveat that if he's going to drink to the point he wets himself then he has to find alternative sleeping arrangements and see if he's as keen to explain to his mates that he's so comatose he can't even perform basic functions like making it to a toilet.

    All the best


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,653 ✭✭✭✭amdublin


    Three times in two years is pretty bad IMO.

    These is going to continue and happen at least once a year unless he stops or majorly reduces his drinking.

    Even if he cleaned up himself each time are you prepared to put up with this??

    I know I wouldn't.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,861 ✭✭✭IrishEyes19


    CDfm wrote: »
    I would not start with anger.

    I would start with cleaning and I would keep my mouth shut for a meaningful discussion.

    With all due respect,CDfm, he should start with the cleaning. I would expect this of a toddler who hasnt grasped it yet. But an adult, no. And if he has a problem in this area, he should at least clean it himself when sober.

    OP, have you discussed this with him?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 209 ✭✭fghijkl


    With all due respect,CDfm, he should start with the cleaning. I would expect this of a toddler who hasnt grasped it yet. But an adult, no. And if he has a problem in this area, he should at least clean it himself when sober.

    OP, have you discussed this with him?

    I misread that aswell but i don't think that's what CDfm meant, if you read their post before that. I think they meant the OP should get him to clean it up first and then discuss it after, rather going in all guns blasing. At least that's what i hope was meant.:cool:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,255 ✭✭✭✭Esoteric_


    Op, that's actually pretty disgusting. WHY did you clean it up the two previous times, though? If you let him away with it before, he'll do it again.

    As to the posters saying he was obviously in no fit state to walk to the bathroom - if he was able to piss, get up, walk into the sitting room and lie down on the couch, he was able to get up and take a leak.

    OP, don't put up with that. It's completely not on and shows that he's clearly drinking a hell of a lot more than he can handle. I've gone way overboard plenty of times with alcohol, but never once have I reached the point of wetting myself.

    If it were me, I'd have let him away with it once, dumped him the second time. You should be dating a man, not a child.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,411 ✭✭✭ABajaninCork


    EWWWWWW!! You have my full sympathy OP. This happened to me once with an old flame.

    Yes, I DID clean it up, as the smell was unbelievable. But I made DAMNED sure his mates knew about it - Big style!

    He was kicked to the kerb fairly shortly after...:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,261 ✭✭✭Sonics2k


    That is probably the most disgusting thing I've heard of.

    I mean, I've dealt with people who've thrown up after nights out, I've done it a few times in my teens. But cleaning up your partners piss soaked sheets is just to much.

    Getting so blindingly drunk you can't go to the toilet is just wrong, expecting you to clean it up is just beyond all measure of disgusting.

    Imo, either he knocks it off completely (and I'm including the getting blindingly drunk), or leave him.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,649 ✭✭✭✭CDfm


    fghijkl wrote: »
    I misread that aswell but i don't think that's what CDfm meant, if you read their post before that. I think they meant the OP should get him to clean it up first and then discuss it after, rather going in all guns blasing. At least that's what i hope was meant.cool.gif

    Exactly, he should do the clean up.

    While it does seem unlikely here, I knew a guy who used to pass out because of a medical condition unrelated to boozing.

    Whichever it is ,it needs to be addressed .



    CDfm wrote: »
    Get him a sponge cloth and dettol spray and a bucket and suggest he does a major clean up

    Here is a UL factsheet for students who binge

    http://www.mic.ul.ie/counselling/Factsheets/alcohol.pdf

    Really if he cant drink responsibly and is wetting the bed he should see his GP and discuss his options

    http://www.drinkaware.ie/index.php?static=links

    and check out local support for you and read up on it

    http://www.drugs.ie/alcohol_info


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,064 ✭✭✭Distorted


    Honestly so shocked at this I'm hardly able to type anything meaningful. You're going to have to get the sofa cleaned too as it will stink now as well. Even my animals don't do this, and if they did, through being old, I'm pretty sure they would avoid lieing in it. I would suggest he goes to see his GP and gets explained to him the consequences of getting drunk so much that this happens. Though you would think that because it has happened more than once, it would be a wake up call for him.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭LegacyUser


    I cleaned it up the other two times because he complained he was too hung over and all I could think of was "oh good god the smell will go into the house"... I suppose I shouldn't have cleaned it. The second time actually I had to scrub the matress and have the heating on for 2 days with it up against the radiator to dry it out before we moved. I Was so embarrassed.

    He still hasn't cleaned it up. I was out with friends for lunch and dinner today and came home to find he still hasn't it done. He said he forgot. I rang him up and said i'm not cleaning it. Which I'm not. Not this time. I'm waiting on him to get back from his friend's house.

    This is really unfair and i am beginning to think he is actually lacking in respect for me at this stage. I seriously feel so annoyed that I don't even want to see him right now.

    You're right , he is acting like a 2 year old. I'm just really annoyed right now still. I had gone out and forgotten about it and figured he'd have cleaned up. But no. This is just wrong. I didn't ask for this. Grr. There is a matress protector on but it's only on top of the matress. Like I don't know if anything went past it. It's all spread out across the matress and then goes down the side sheet. So I don't know if anything got on the matress or the base.

    All i know is, it'll need replacing fully before we move out of here.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32 bridal


    Seraphina wrote: »
    Wetting the bed because he's drunk is pretty bad, but then to just move to the couch without cleaning anything up because he was uncomfortable on the bed?!? So he's been sitting on the couch in his pissy clothes too?

    I would have been dragging him off the couch to clean that up or giving him his marching orders. That is pretty disgusting and just SO disrespectful. He obviously assumed you would sort it out when you came in.

    +1 so disgusting and disrespectful, think i would be giving him a serious talking to, its so unhygenic


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 209 ✭✭fghijkl


    He still hasn't cleaned it up. I was out with friends for lunch and dinner today and came home to find he still hasn't it done. He said he forgot. I rang him up and said i'm not cleaning it. Which I'm not. Not this time. I'm waiting on him to get back from his friend's house.

    He forgot??! Bullsh*t!! He forgot that he had drenched a mattress in his own urine? He has left your bed covered in his pi** for an entire day? He's no better than a dog.

    That is absolutely disgusting behaviour. I'm sorry OP but your boyfriend is a disgusting, selfish, filthy pig tbh

    I cleaned it up the other two times because he complained he was too hung over and all I could think of was "oh good god the smell will go into the house"... I suppose I shouldn't have cleaned it.
    He was too hungover? That is the worst excuse i've ever heard.
    You suppose you shouldn't have cleaned it?! wtf?! It's bad enough he did it in the first place, but to actually let you clean it up?! What an obnoxious piece of work he is.
    This is really unfair and i am beginning to think he is actually lacking in respect for me at this stage.
    You're only beginning to think this now? I'm sorry for being so blunt OP, but your boyfriend hasn't an ounce of respect for you. At all. He is walking all over you and making a complete fool of you. I honestly have no idea why you are still with this guy? Or why you'd even want to be someone who treats you like dirt?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭LegacyUser


    This is really unfair and i am beginning to think he is actually lacking in respect for me at this stage.

    Dear God girl, seriously? Are you for real......he has ZERO respect for you. And what's more he has a drink problem. Cleaning up before was enabling him. Wake up!

    You need to leave him. These are big red flags. If he was sincerely mortified (as any decent person should be) then he would have sorted it no matter HOW hungover he was.

    You need to wake up and smell the coffee. Get your stuff and get the HELL away from this loser. He is disgusting. This is your future. This will become normal and then something else horrible and then something else again.

    Don't think you will be different, and he will change etc. He won't. Go. If you have any self respect OP, you deserve better than cleaning up the piss of a drunkard. A drunkard who hasn't even the basic decency to be ashamed of his disguting actions. Don't give him any more chances, you're wasting your time. It's bad enough he has done this for the third time never mind the adding insult to injury of 'forgetting' to clean it up.

    Do you want to be that pathetic woman enabling an alcoholic through stubborn pride and denial that everyone pities? Well do you? Because that's what lies ahead here. Never mind flat deposits and what your friends and family will think, if you think it's embarrassing admitting 'defeat' now, just wait till later.

    LEAVE.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,442 ✭✭✭Firetrap


    Now that is taking the p!ss if you pardon the pun. Nobody just "forgets" to clean up after themselves after an incident like that :mad::mad: Anyone who has any shred of decency at all would be absolutely mortified and would be trying to clear up the evidence as soon as they could. Hangover or no hangover.

    It's probably a bit late in the evening to be giving you advice on this but whatever you do, do NOT clear up the mess. Sleep on the couch if you have to but this is your boyfriend's responsibility. He's the one who got so paralytically drunk that he peed in the bed. He's the one who, instead of trying to do something about at the time, just went to kip on the couch. He's the person who "forgot" to clean up after himself today, assuming that you'd step into the breach yet again and do the needful.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,894 ✭✭✭Chinafoot


    His behaviour when it comes to the clean up is appalling but I have one question....

    Has your boyfriend been tested for diabetes?

    A friend of mine wet the bed a few times after alcohol and rows with his missus meant he went to the doctor because he knew himself something was up. He told his doctor about wetting the bed and the doctor instantly pegged diabetes. Turns out he had it.

    Maybe your fella is so mortified about wetting the bed he's burying his head in the sand. Its not an excuse for his behaviour though and I most certainly wouldn't be cleaning up after him.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8 cescbomb


    This guy sounds like a legend, pisses the bed and gets someone else to clean it up? I'd love to have a pint with him. So long as he didn't get too excited and piss on me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,518 ✭✭✭✭dudara


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    dudara


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 80 ✭✭muracan


    If I were you I would order a new bed and matress.Dump the old.

    Buy a new duvet,sheets etc.Stick your boyfriend with the bill.

    If he refuses to pay give him his walking papers.....you will be well rid....he lacks respect.....you could do alot better!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭LegacyUser


    a friend of mine does this, but instead of peeing in the bed, he sleep pees... he will wake up and will find out he peed in the hotpress, beside the toilet, and one time his girlfriend found him outside in the back garden in his boxers peeing... his brother does the same. he gets morto, but it only happens if he drinks too much so he is watchin the amount he drinks and hasnt happened in a while now.

    sit down and talk to him


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,975 ✭✭✭nkay1985


    Wow. Seriously, wow.

    Firstly, the fact that this is the third time is unacceptable. He should have taken steps to make sure it never happened again after the first time.

    I once got sick on the end of our bed while my fiancée was asleep. I didn't even know I'd done it. I obviously woke up and vomited immediatley, then collapsed back to sleep because I was horribly drunk. When my fiancée realised this at 5am she said it to me but I was still hammered and didn't even know what was going on. She headed off to her sister's. When I woke up properly, I immediately stripped the whole bed, put what could be washed in the wash, went to the dry cleaners with the duvet, put on a different duvet with fresh bedclothes, scrubbed anywhere else the vomit had done damage and picked up the newly cleaned duvet once it was ready. That was the absolute very least I could do. I still felt disgusting. I still felt ashamed. I took the lambasting I got from her on the chin. I sat through the agony of her telling my parents and friends what I'd done. It was entirely my fault and was inexcuseable.

    But your boyfriend? The first time it happened, he wouldn't clean up his own filth because he was too hungover? Seriously? You should have caught the piss-soaked sheet and fcuked it down on top of him while he was panned out on the couch and then gotten the hell out of there. You then cleaned it up the next time it happened. Obviously a bad move but none of this means you shuld have to put up with this behaviour. He's gone an entire day without cleaning up the mess he made. Nothing excuses this behaviour. Your OH is a childish, disgusting, selfish prick. I expected to read down a bit in this thread and see that he'd cleaned it all up by 9:00am and brought you out for Sunday lunch by way of apology or something!!!!

    I'm not one of these people for whom the answer is always get rid of him but I don't see any other option for you here OP. He has no respect for you and obviously thinks you're his slave or something. Get rid.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,630 ✭✭✭Zen65


    I'm just really annoyed right now still. I had gone out and forgotten about it and figured he'd have cleaned up. But no. This is just wrong. I didn't ask for this.

    I'm afraid he thinks you did when you decided to clean up the first two times.

    Now you need to establish new rules, and if he cannot live with them and show you the kind of respect he'd probably show to a stranger then it's time to get rid of him. In your position I would be disgusted to the point that the relationship could not go on.


    Be at peace,

    Z


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,264 ✭✭✭mood


    Why are you still with him?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,435 ✭✭✭solerina


    mood wrote: »
    Why are you still with him?

    This is a very good question......why are you still with him OP :confused:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,479 ✭✭✭I am a friend


    Oh OP, this guy is a deadweight. He has no respect for himself and he is treating you worse than a paid servant. I would not leave a mess like that for a cleaner to tidy up. He has no personal pride and is lazy... Not exactly a dream man so why are you staying with him?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 561 ✭✭✭slowmoe


    Op does your bf have hygeine issues? Its one thing to be so lazy and disrespectful to expect someone to clean up your messes, its quite another to go for a day to a friends leaving your own mattress and couch covered in urine. As others have said its deeply disgusting behaviour that shows a severe lack of respect for you. Has your bf cleaned it yet? Did he clean it willingly or did you have to?

    When you rang him to ask was it cleaned, did he seem surprised that you hadn't cleaned it, or annoyed that you were confronting him about it? Or anything whatsoever? Did he ever apologise for forcingyou sleep on a bed made of cushions because he wet your shared bed????????????

    Either he has an alcohol problem, a physical problem, or a behaviour problem, or possibly all three....whichever it is, its far beyond normal levels and he should be seeking help. There are people who can go to no matter what this problem is.


    Seriously-good luck!!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,264 ✭✭✭mood


    slowmoe wrote: »
    Either he has an alcohol problem, a physical problem, or a behaviour problem, or possibly all three....whichever it is, its far beyond normal levels and he should be seeking help. There are people who can go to no matter what this problem is.


    Seriously-good luck!!!!

    He definitely has a behaviour problem as slowmoe puts it. It is possible there is a alcohol problem and/or a physical problem as well but he behaviour would be enough for me to leave him.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,055 ✭✭✭Emme


    muracan wrote: »
    If I were you I would order a new bed and matress.Dump the old.

    She should dump the boyfriend while she's at it. But not before she does the following:
    muracan wrote: »
    Buy a new duvet,sheets etc.Stick your boyfriend with the bill.
    muracan wrote: »
    If he refuses to pay give him his walking papers.....you will be well rid....he lacks respect.....you could do alot better!

    He should get his walking papers regardless. Unless he has a serious medical condition his behaviour is inexcusable and most animals have more self-respect.

    For example, our DOG goes to the door and asks to be let out when he wants to go to the toilet. If he does have an accident we clean up after him but if he has an accident it's because we're not around to let him out, not because he's too lazy to go to the door.

    On the other hand you, OP, have been cleaning up after a scumbag whose mess is entirely of his own making. He gets drunk, is either too out of it or too lazy to walk to the toilet and expects you to clean up. Priceless! :eek:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,649 ✭✭✭✭CDfm


    I think some of the questioning is unfair as sometimes we fall in love with people against our better judgement.

    I just wonder how the OP is coping after things have settled and if they are still together.

    If they are still together ,then, it is something that you need to address as a couple.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,737 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    This guy needs to be read the riot act. If he's complaining that he can't clean up his own urine then I'd be yelling and screaming and banging doors, playing thumping music and basically doing anything I could to make his hangover worse until he cleaned up after himself.

    If I were you I'd sleep in my spare room and lock him out of it so that he had no choice but to sleep in his own piss until he cleaned it up.

    Although, to be honest, if he's getting so drunk that he's wet himself on 3 occasions I'd be seriously thinking of making him pay to get the bed and sofa steam cleaned, then telling him to F off for himself. You don't need to be looking after a toddler until you have a toddler.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭LegacyUser


    I cleaned it up the other two times because he complained he was too hung over and all I could think of was "oh good god the smell will go into the house"... I suppose I shouldn't have cleaned it. The second time actually I had to scrub the matress and have the heating on for 2 days with it up against the radiator to dry it out before we moved. I Was so embarrassed.

    He still hasn't cleaned it up. I was out with friends for lunch and dinner today and came home to find he still hasn't it done. He said he forgot. I rang him up and said i'm not cleaning it. Which I'm not. Not this time. I'm waiting on him to get back from his friend's house.

    This is really unfair and i am beginning to think he is actually lacking in respect for me at this stage. I seriously feel so annoyed that I don't even want to see him right now.

    You're right , he is acting like a 2 year old. I'm just really annoyed right now still. I had gone out and forgotten about it and figured he'd have cleaned up. But no. This is just wrong. I didn't ask for this. Grr. There is a matress protector on but it's only on top of the matress. Like I don't know if anything went past it. It's all spread out across the matress and then goes down the side sheet. So I don't know if anything got on the matress or the base.

    All i know is, it'll need replacing fully before we move out of here.

    This is absolutely disgusting behaviour! What sort of a person leaves their house drenched in their own piss for days? Much less they bed they share with their partner?! If he was under the age of 10 I would understand. No adult in full health should expect another person to clean up their bodily waste! Its surprising he wasnt even embarrrassed!

    Youve cleaned up after him before, he expects this from you now. Do you really want to be washing piss off your furniture for the rest of your life, while your boyfriend swans off to his friends house for the day?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 856 ✭✭✭miec


    Hi Op

    I know a woman whose husband wet the bed frequently from drinking too much alcohol, it ended up that they slept in seperate beds and he had to have special rubber sheets, also he had no respect for her as she cleaned his mess afterwards. Is this the future that you would like?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11 bubblebrain


    Yes, it's not something that people should put up with but it can happen. In fact, I was one of those DOPES who cleaned up after my ex constantly wet the bed. After the first few occasions, he was deeply embarrassed and I sorted it out (like a fool!) as I felt so bad for him = BIG MISTAKE!

    The more I sorted it, the more he started to do it - he'd pee - I would try and wake him and then I'd get told to f**k off. So I'd go to the couch. Then a few hours later, he'd either wake me up to apologise because he woke up realising what he did - but this was only for me to help him as the coldness of the pee on his skin would set in. He actually would get annoyed with me if I refused to help him.

    Then I moved into the spare bedroom and he got upset because I didn't want to sleep with him - I WAS SUCH AN IDIOT TO HIS MANULIPITIVE VICTIM ACT! He said the reason for it was not because of the volume of drink in his system, but that he had a very bad childhood which caused him to go into deep sleeps!

    It was so embarrassing, that if we stayed away, he likely did piss on the bed and left me to apologise for it as he thought the best solution was to ignore it! Thankfully, I saw the light but it was so embarrassing for such a long time to even admit it because after a while, by not addressing it, it also became my problem? You wonder and become anxious wondering when he'll strike again. Believe me, it doesn't pay not to look after your own feelings in relationships!

    I don't think it makes/breaks a relationship but the fact that the OP's guy won't clean up his own piss is disgusting. I would never disrespect someone like that and lord forbid it ever happened to me, I know I'd take responsibility.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34 Rufus the brave


    I slashed in the bed a couple of times and my gf was not happy. Funny looking back on it now kind of. When you're that drunk and hungover believe me it is not possible to clean it up. It's the binge drinking...it's hard to stop yourself sometimes with everyone drinking so much. It's an occupational hazard for irish men, so i wouldn't be leaving him just over that!!!

    The only way i changed was due to my gf screaming and roaring at me. Reasoned conversation won't work. It's a learning curve babe. A steep learning curve


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34 Rufus the brave


    kylith wrote: »
    This guy needs to be read the riot act. If he's complaining that he can't clean up his own urine then I'd be yelling and screaming and banging doors, playing thumping music and basically doing anything I could to make his hangover worse until he cleaned up after himself.

    If I were you I'd sleep in my spare room and lock him out of it so that he had no choice but to sleep in his own piss until he cleaned it up.

    Although, to be honest, if he's getting so drunk that he's wet himself on 3 occasions I'd be seriously thinking of making him pay to get the bed and sofa steam cleaned, then telling him to F off for himself. You don't need to be looking after a toddler until you have a toddler.

    I think this girl has hit the nail on the head. It's the only way. I wouldn't be the type of guy that would be having screaming matches with his gf. That behaviour is for skangers, but when it comes to something as extreme as this the gf needs to take really extreme actions.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,951 ✭✭✭dixiefly


    I slashed in the bed a couple of times and my gf was not happy. Funny looking back on it now kind of. When you're that drunk and hungover believe me it is not possible to clean it up. It's the binge drinking...it's hard to stop yourself sometimes with everyone drinking so much. It's an occupational hazard for irish men, so i wouldn't be leaving him just over that!!!

    The only way i changed was due to my gf screaming and roaring at me. Reasoned conversation won't work. It's a learning curve babe. A steep learning curve

    occupational hazard for some irish men.

    Dont tar us all with the one brush....

    Fair enough if it happened as a once off but the failure to cleanup and to allow it to happen again is not something I have thankfully come near to doing and I believe that I speak for many irish men in that!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,055 ✭✭✭Emme


    I slashed in the bed a couple of times and my gf was not happy. Funny looking back on it now kind of.

    Not funny for your girlfriend.
    When you're that drunk and hungover believe me it is not possible to clean it up.

    I'd have thought that it happened a guy once he'd be so embarrassed he wouldn't get so drunk and risk peeing in the bed again.

    It's the binge drinking...it's hard to stop yourself sometimes with everyone drinking so much.

    If you cared about your girlfriend and didn't want a bedroom that stank like a pen in Dublin zoo you'd stop yourself. Making excuses about not being able to stop yourself is irresponsible.
    It's an occupational hazard for irish men, so i wouldn't be leaving him just over that!!!

    I hope it's not an occupational hazard for ALL Irish men. If it is then Irish women should only date foreign men and leave Irish men to drink themselves comatose and wallow in their own mess.
    The only way i changed was due to my gf screaming and roaring at me. Reasoned conversation won't work. It's a learning curve babe. A steep learning curve

    It might be a steep learning curve and I would advise the OP not to bother, just get rid of this piss-soaked loser.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34 Rufus the brave


    For me, it was quite difficult to change my social habits of getting hammered drunk, but I eventually did. When I say "funny looking back at it", I mean more in the sense that the notion is so strange to me now.

    I think maybe this guy seems insensitive in that he steadfastly refuses to wash the sheets.

    My own experience is that I responded to ultimatums etc and getting shouted at when I was heavily hungover which was borderline traumatic.

    Anyway, look at me now. I am a changed man :)


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    While I completely agree that he is in the wrong and should be kicked to the curb, but have you tried to talk to him about his drinking? It seems like this is a massive problem.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,518 ✭✭✭OS119


    While I completely agree that he is in the wrong and should be kicked to the curb, but have you tried to talk to him about his drinking? It seems like this is a massive problem.

    really, you think he needs to have a conversation with someone to work out that A) for him, there is a cause and effect relationship between him getting half-cut and swamping the bed, and B) that leaving piss-soaked bed for 24hrs because no one else has cleaned it up is ok?

    what else does this chimp need - velcro shoes, ice-cream and a balloon?

    if he's sufficient thick that he hasn't worked this stuff out for himself then he can hardly be great company - or indeed breeding material.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    OS119 wrote: »
    really, you think he needs to have a conversation with someone to work out that A) for him, there is a cause and effect relationship between him getting half-cut and swamping the bed, and B) that leaving piss-soaked bed for 24hrs because no one else has cleaned it up is ok?

    what else does this chimp need - velcro shoes, ice-cream and a balloon?

    if he's sufficient thick that he hasn't worked this stuff out for himself then he can hardly be great company - or indeed breeding material.

    Sometimes it's hard to recognise there's a problem until somebody else points it out to you. Even if it is as clear as day to everybody else.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,294 ✭✭✭Jack B. Badd


    Sometimes it's hard to recognise there's a problem until somebody else points it out to you. Even if it is as clear as day to everybody else.

    I think the point OS119 is making is that, in this instance, if he's finding it so difficult to recognise that there is a problem & identify what that problem is, he has probably fallen off the bottom of the list of potential mates. Yes, there are some people in the world who have major difficulty understanding basic concepts when it comes to consideration of the people around them - I doubt that much sympathy is felt for them when the people around them call it a day. This one doesn't sound like he deserves anyone's time or consideration tbh.


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